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Date Sent: 2010-12-03
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, December 2, 2010 PM edition |
Nigeria to charge Dick Cheney in $180 million bribery case, issue Interpol arrest warrant
Bush torture prosecution, leaked cable shows -- Citigroup May Hire Obama's Former Budget Chief Peter Orszag -- The white robber who carried out six raids disguised as a black man -- Did being evil boost a firm's ranking on Google? -- Doug Casey on Wikileaks -- Wiki-leak? Or pre-planned scare tactic? -- BitTorrent Based DNS To Counter US Domain Seizures -- US State Department orders employees not to read WikiLeaks -- Amazon faces boycott over WikiLeaks axe --
Mother Kept In “Glass Cage” For Almost An Hour By TSA For Resisting
Over Breast Milk -- Site of Britain's first ever gunbattle revealed -- New East Palo Alto license plate readers will run all plates through crime databases --
Fed Withholds Collateral Data for $885 Billion in Financial-Crisis
Loans -- Death Penalty May Be Ruled Unconstitutional In Texas -- Fed
Gutting Truth In Lending Laws: Homeowners Paying To Be Raped -- Dad: Court took my kids because I’m agnostic -- In bra, panties and wheelchair, woman goes through Oklahoma City airport screening this morning -- Race Is On to 'Fingerprint' Phones, PCs -- WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning "designed Facebook" as a schoolboy -- Want JP Morgan to crash? Buy silver -- HK gold market hit by sophisticated scam -- Federal Reserve's 2008 Bailout: $ 9,000.000,000.000 Loaned At Below 1% -- Chinese Gold Imports Surge By 500% Through October -- Navy's Trident Nuclear Warheads Hit the Highway, Bound for Texas
AZ: 2010
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News Link • Bush Administration
Nigeria to charge Dick Cheney in $180 million bribery case, issue Interpol arrest warrant
12-02-2010
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Bloomberg
Nigeria will file charges against former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and officials from five foreign companies including Halliburton Co. over a $180 million bribery scandal, a prosecutor at the anti-graft agency said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
Obama White House pressured Spain to drop Bush torture prosecution, leaked cable shows
12-02-2010
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Rawstory
The Obama administration went to the mat to defend its predecessors from a torture prosecution in Spain last year, a leaked State Department cable shows.
The cable, released by WikiLeaks this week, shows that senior US diplomats teamed with Republ
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Citigroup May Hire Obama's Former Budget Chief Peter Orszag
12-02-2010
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Bloomberg
Citigroup Inc., recovering from its $45 billion bailout in 2008, is in advanced talks to hire former White House Budget Director Peter Orszag, people with knowledge of the matter said.
Orszag, 41, may take a job in the New York-based firm’s invest
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
The white robber who carried out six raids disguised as a black man
12-02-2010
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Daily Mail
A white man who pleaded guilty to 6 robberies in Ohio used a black mask so lifelike that police initially arrested a black man for one of the crimes. The mother of the wrongly accused man even thought a photo of the robbery suspect she saw on televis
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Did being evil boost a firm's ranking on Google?
12-02-2010
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Christian Science Monitor
The worse Vitaly Borker treated his customers, the higher the Google ranking of his New York designer eyeglass company rose. Or so it seemed.
A Nov. 26 New York Times article detailed how he went out of his way to harass a minority of customers "
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Doug Casey on Wikileaks
12-02-2010
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www.caseyresearch.com
(Interviewed by Louis James, Editor, International Speculator)
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News Link • False Flag Operations
Wiki-leak? Or pre-planned scare tactic?
12-02-10
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The PPJ Gazette
So what are these people really upset about? Are they upset about the dirty world of US policy? Or, are they just angry that it got exposed? I suggest that they are upset about neither of these aspects; they are however playing a crucial roll in ca
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Homeland Security
BitTorrent Based DNS To Counter US Domain Seizures
12-02-2010
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Torrent Freak
The domain seizures by the United States authorities and upcoming legislation that make similar takeovers even easier in the future, inspired a group of enthusiasts to come up with a new, decentralized and BitTorrent-powered DNS system.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
US State Department orders employees not to read WikiLeaks
12-02-2010
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Christian Science Monitor
The US State Dept. directed its staff around the world not to surf the WikiLeaks website, according to employees. The ban is in response to WikiLeaks' decision to published classified material, including US diplomatic cables. It’s not clear when the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Amazon faces boycott over WikiLeaks axe
12-02-2010
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Metro
The internet giant took action after coming under pressure from right-wingers in the US to stop hosting the site, which this week published tens of thousands of confidential diplomatic e-mails.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Mother Kept In “Glass Cage” For Almost An Hour By TSA For Resisting Over Breast Milk
12-02-2010
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Prison Planet
The latest case of TSA tyranny to hit the headlines comes in the form of a young mother who was subjected to enhanced groping and then shut inside a screening box for almost an hour by agents after she refused to allow them to put her breast milk thr
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
'Worm Therapy' Stimulates Gut Mucus
12-02-2010
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LiveScience
For some sufferers of inflammatory bowel diseases, relief comes in the form of a parasite cocktail: A deliberate infection with worms seems to soothe disease symptoms. Thanks to one man who volunteered his gut for science, a new study suggests the wo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
Site of Britain's first ever gunbattle revealed
12-02-2010
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Reuters
Archaeologists believe they have found evidence of the first use of firearms on a British battlefield after fragments of shattered guns were unearthed on a site that saw one of the bloodiest battles ever fought on English soil.
The bronze barrel f
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
PHX Woman In Wheelchair Gets Through TSA In Undies
12-02-2010
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www.kpho.com
Banovac, a former Playboy bunny, told The Oklahoman newspaper she chose to wear her underwear because of an unpleasant experience two weeks ago at airport security. She is often hand-searched because she uses a wheelchair, she said, and she felt viol
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News Link • Surveillance
New East Palo Alto license plate readers will run plates through crime databases
12-02-2010
By the new year, the East Palo Alto PD will be using automatic license plate readers to identify law breakers. The City Council has agreed to pay for the new devices " including two sets of high-speed cameras and sophisticated computers " with a gran
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Withholds Collateral Data for $885 Billion in Financial-Crisis Loans
12-02-2010
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Bloomberg
The Federal Reserve withheld details on individual securities pledged as collateral by recipients of $885 billion in central bank loans, denying taxpayers a measure of the risks they faced from its emergency aid.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Death Penalty
Death Penalty May Be Ruled Unconstitutional In Texas
12-02-2010
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Huffington Post
A district court in Texas will decide whether the death penalty is unconstitutional based on the disproportionately high risk of wrongful convictions in Texas. The first time a court will examine the problem of innocent people being executed in Texas
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Gutting Truth In Lending Laws: Homeowners Paying To Be Raped
12-02-2010
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washingtonsblog.com/
"At the depths of the worst foreclosure crisis since the Great Depression, we are surprised that the Fed has proposed rules that would eviscerate the primary protection homeowners currently have to escape abusive loans and avoid foreclosure
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Family
Dad: Court took my kids because I’m agnostic
12-02-2010
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Rawstory
Craig Scarberry had joint 50-50 custody of his three children with his ex-wife for four years, until a judge ruled last month that he was to be limited to four hours' visitation time per week and custody once every second weekend.
Scarberry says t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
In bra, panties and wheelchair, woman goes through Oklahoma City airport screening this morning
12-02-2010
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The Oklahoman (video)
A woman who missed her flight at Will Rogers World Airport Tuesday when she showed up in a wheelchair, bra and panties, passed through the airport screening process this morning and has left the city. Failed to pass when security officers detected tr
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Communications
Race Is On to 'Fingerprint' Phones, PCs
12-02-2010
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Wall Street Journal
David Norris wants to collect the digital equivalent of fingerprints from every computer, cellphone and TV set-top box in the world. He's off to a good start. So far, Mr. Norris's company has identified 200 million devices. By the end of next year, B
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning "designed Facebook" as a schoolboy, friends say
12-02-2010
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Daily Telegraph
Friends remember the teenager as a shy schoolboy who was determined to speak his mind and “had his own sense of right and wrong”. Tom Dyer, a fellow pupil at Tasker Milward School, said: "Overall, Bradley was renowned for his IT skills.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Future Predictions
Mike Wallace Interviews Aldous Huxley: May 18, 1958
12-02-2010
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YouTube.com
WALLACE: You said something to the effect in your essay that the children of Europe used to be called 'cannon fodder' and here in the United States they are 'television and radio fodder.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Want JP Morgan to crash? Buy silver
12-02-2010
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Max Keiser, Guardian.co.uk
For decades, the world's banking system has been on a fiat currency standard that has led to banks that are "too big to fail". They have overreached their remit of providing loans and have leeched into the political system, using our money to chan
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Hugo Tellez
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News Link • Precious Metals
Gold Imports by China Soar Almost Fivefold
12-02-2010
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Bloomberg
China's gold imports jumped almost fivefold in the first 10 months from the entire amount shipped last year as concerns about rising inflation increased its appeal as a store of value, said the Shanghai Gold Exchange. Imports gained
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Precious Metals
HK gold market hit by sophisticated scam
12-02-2010
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Financial Times
Hong Kong goldsmiths have been sold hundreds of ounces of fake gold this year in one of the most sophisticated scams to hit the Chinese territory's gold market in decades. Industry executives say the scam - while not massive and hitting only the ret
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve's 2008 Bailout: $ 9,000.000,000.000
Loaned At Below 1%
12-02-2010
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csmonitor.com/USA
In one program alone the Fed doled out nearly $9 trillion in funds to borrowers such as Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch, largely at interest rates below 1 percent.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
November Federal Government Debt Update: The Disaster Continues
12-02-2010
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Market-ticker.org
I have no expectation that our government will do the right thing voluntarily. Not now, not ever. Witness yesterday's deficit commission news conference in which the screaming and shouting over five percent budget cuts was witnessed
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Precious Metals
Chinese Gold Imports Surge By 500% Through October
12-02-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
China announced a few days back it was creating a fund to allow its domestic investor base to allocated capital to foreign gold ETF, may wish to reconsider after it was disclosed late last night that China gold imports jumped by 500%
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Seriously?
Navy's Trident Nuclear Warheads Hit the Highway, Bound for Texas
12-02-2010
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kitsapsun.com via jalopnik.com
Mann said she believes the State Patrol is the only agency with general knowledge about the shipments, but spokesman Dan Coon said troopers aren’t in the loop.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Humor
If You Don't Like Christmas, You Might Not Want To Watch This Video... (Warning: Explicit Lyrics
12-02-2010
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YouTube via RTR.org
You might not even want to click on the link... : ) Welcome to December!
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Whistleblowers
WikiLeaks Explained in Chinese (video) ;-D
12-02-2010
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youtube
Whistleblower website Wikileaks has created a media storm after releasing 250,000 classified US diplomatic documents. Details of the papers reveal scathing criticism of many world leaders by US diplomats.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Agriculture
Irish Peat Modernization
12-02-2010
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arclein
“We started off by looking at new uses of peat and environmental uses of peat,” Henry added. “Now we’re talking about different types of renewable energy and clean tech products.” Henry estimated Bord na Mona is “a good halfway towards the transforma
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News Link • Day of Reckoning
Post Spill Gulf Sickness
12-02-2010
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arclein
All my muscles hurt," DeAngelis told IPS. "By the time I climb my stairs every muscle in my legs are in spasm. I'm coughing, I have a constant sore throat and hoarse voice."
In addition to these symptoms, her memory is fading. "I have totally
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News Link • Environment
Iron Makes Toxic Blooms in Ocean
12-02-2010
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arclein
A team of marine scientists has found that toxin-producing algae once thought to be limited to coastal waters are also common in the open ocean, where the addition of iron from natural or artificial sources can stimulate rapid growth of the harmful a
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Arclein Diet Works!
12-02-2010
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arclein
owever, once the body adjusted its expectations it began to lose weight at the rate of 2 ½ pounds per month for four months with no discomfort at all. I suspect that I have dropped fifteen pounds in all to date. An equal amount would place me at my
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robert klein
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News Link • Housing
Q3 Sales Volume Plunges As Discount On Foreclosed Homes Hits 5 Year High
12-02-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The discount on foreclosed homes has hit a five year high, as interest in even ultra bargain properties has collapsed following the expiration of the homebuyer tax credit.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Chris Whalen Interview: "Fed Let The Economy Go To Hell" (VIDEO)
12-02-2010
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YouTube.com
Chris Whalen "The Fed was set up to help the real economy when Wall Street periodically destroyed it's self... The Fed is now there to support the speculators, and they let the real economy go to hell"
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News Link • Housing
American Securitization Forum Tells Monstrous Whoppers in Senate Testimony
12-02-2010
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NakedCapitalism.com/
This is simultaneously laughable and damaging. The argument basically boils down to: “Gee, the fact that no one bothered to observe the contracts means they never intended to. So we’ll just pretend those provisions don’t count.”
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News Link • European Union
Europe Is Becoming An Orwelian Police State, Ruled By Unelectable Madmen
12-01-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
"Complete madness has overcome the European Union: on the broader point there are those here who do see the European project a staging post to one world government"
Nigel Farage
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed data reveal wide scope of loan action during financial crisis
12-01-2010
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Washington Post
The Federal Reserve pumped trillions of dollars into all manner of banks, investment firms and major companies during the financial crisis, according to documents released that reveal for the first time the full scope of the Fed's emergency lending.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Deutsche Bank And Credit Suisse Sold The Most MBS to The Fed
12-01-2010
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Businessinsider.com/ & ZeroHedge.com
Here is the question no one will ask. Did American banks sell these foreign banks Mortgage Backed Securities that were hollow shells, because the notes had never been put into the trusts under New York state rules.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Meet The 35 Foreign Banks That Got Bailed Out By The Fed
12-01-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
We now know the Fed also acted in a secondary bail out capacity, providing over $350 billion in short term funding exclusively to 35 foreign banks, of which the biggest beneficiaries were UBS, Dexia and BNP.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA to Unveil Discovery That Affects Search for Extraterrestrial Life
12-01-2010
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Space.com
NASA is expected to make an announcement Thursday (Dec. 2) about a new scientific finding that "will impact the search for extraterrestrial life," the space agency said in a statement. (NASA II - The Search for More Money)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Gold and Silver
1099 Supply Shock for Gold Buyers
10-04-2010
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Jeff Lewis via LewRockwell.com
The 1099 reform in the health care bill passed by Congress and signed by the President has turned the physical gold market upside down. Under the new law, gold buyers and sellers will have to fill out a 1099 on each side of the transaction..
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News Link • Corruption
Paul Craig Roberts: A Government Caught Up in Mendacity and Lies
12-02-2010
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AntiWar.com
Mike Huckabee, the redneck baptist preacher who was governor of Arkansas and, to America’s already overwhelming shame, was third runner up to the Republican presidential nomination, has called for Assange’s execution
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Gold and Silver
45 years after President Johnson said taking silver out of coins would not end badly,....
12-02-2010
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The New York Sun
What catches our attention about all this is simply the drama of the collapse of the dollar against silver in the two generations since the president who signed the Coinage Act taking silver out of most of our coinage vowed there wouldn’t be such a c
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
The Mobile Device Is Becoming Humankind's Primary Tool (Infographics Feature)
12-02-2010
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Evan I. Schwartz via TechnologyReview.com
People everywhere are consuming more and more wireless bandwidth to manage a wider variety of tasks. Evidence shows that the mobile phone is becoming indispensable to us.
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News Link • Internet
Homeland Security seizes domain names
12-02-2010
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Sara Jerome via THE HILL
The investigative arm of the Homeland Security Department appears to be shutting down websites that facilitate copyright infringement.
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